I'm using an A4 Tech PS/2 (3D mini Mouse w/ scroll) that has an extra adapter that lets' you convert your ps/2 into a com connector, the last time I encounter the PS/2 problem is when I tried RH 7.2, it did not detect my PS/2 mouse, and I cannot use my mouse wheel under web browser (which is I don't like), my current distribution is MDK 8.2, and it detects my mouse as "Microsoft Intellimouse", which is cool!

you can now safely install linux on that partition. In large HD, you can have problems in older linux distributions because of old kernel and bootloader that cannot boot high values of HD geometry settings, install the newest distributions.

Shouldn't be a problem with the new kernels like ^ said. I think the easiest way to do this is by using dos fdisk to split the partition first into 2 fat32. Install win98 on the first partition and linux on the second. When you install linux, fdisk the 2nd partition again. Some distro will even give you a warning about the 1024 cylinder limit as redhat did when I installed it, but some don't even care like when I installed slackware. Worked fine both times for me using lilo.

well, if you don't know how to start, just let teh installer do the partitioning for you. however, if you prefer to do the job manually, make sure you create a huge ext2/Reiserfs/ext3 partition for "/" (root directory) more likely to be 90% larger than swap partition, and a 500MB swap would be great.